I noticed your first post in this thread....just thought the post I quoted you in, before this one, meant something deeper....maybe something about the past and the current Emo wave. Never mind then.
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There were two main waves of emo. The first included: Fugazi (the most influential to the second wave), Jawbreaker, Rites of Spring, possibly Minor Threat, Embrace, Grey Matter etc.
Then other bands such as Jimmy Eat World, The Get Up Kids, Sunny Day Real Estate etc started encorporating influences from the aforementioned bands into what they were making. That being a soft rock kind of thing. This is where emo ends, really. Jimmy Eat World had emotional songs and lyrics, but it spiralled out of control and now everybody labels certain bands as emo when they're not. With the second wave of emo (as it's known), you could at least trace back to the originals.
Bands that are labelled emo today, mostly, are not emo and never have been. As stated here:
"Correctly or not (AC's note: Not, for the record), emo has often been used to describe such bands as AFI, Alexisonfire, A Static Lullaby, Brand New, Coheed & Cambria, Fall Out Boy, Finch, From Autumn to Ashes, From First to Last, Funeral for a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, Matchbook Romance, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Silverstein, Something Corporate, The Starting Line, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, and Thursday. Fans of several of these bands have recoiled at the use of the 'emo' tag, and have gone to great lengths to explain why they don't qualify as 'emo'. In many cases, the term has simply been attached to them because of musical similarites, a common fashion sense, or because of the band's popularity within the 'emo' scene, not because the band adheres to emo as a music genre."
Wikipedia has a massive page on it, and as I've done this more times than I wish to count, I'll link you to it:
Emo is a subgenre of hardcore called Emotive/Emotional Hardcore. It contains many basic hardcore riffs with clean and occasional harsh vocals. The lyrics usually have to do with a sensual or depressing topic, usually romance. Examples of Emotional Hardcore are:
Rites of Spring
Embrace
Grey Matter
Beefeater
Fugazi
Hawthrone Heights
I don't listen to emo, just setting the record straight
(total genre nazi ^^)
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Emo isn't a subgenre of emotive hardcore, emo is emotive hardcore. It's the shortened name of it. Emotive hardcore was changed to emocore, to emo. Hawthorne Heights are not an emo band. If you're going to claim the pathetic title of a genre nazi then at least get the shit right.
-AC
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Jul 16th, 2006 10:32 PM
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